Nike Chiles

Adult Author

Nick Chiles is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and three-time New York Times bestselling author. He has written or co-written 14 books, including books with Bobby Brown, Kirk Franklin, Rev. Al Sharpton, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Star Jones, NBA veteran Etan Thomas, attorney Robbin Shipp and Denene Millner, his wife. He has won over a dozen major journalism awards during a journalism career that brought him to the Dallas Morning News, the Star-Ledger of New Jersey and New York Newsday, where he won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters. For seven years he served as Editor-in-Chief of Odyssey Couleur travel magazine; he also was Editor-in-Chief of the website AtlantaBlackStar.com. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters; his son is an engineer in Houston.